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This immersive documentary is a bracingly intimate and hallucinatory portrait of 67-year-old Lloyd, a man with schizophrenia surviving amidst urban detritus and decay.—
J. Kim Murphy,
Variety,
18 Dec. 2024 -
In many ways, her comical, woozy dream scenes are archetypal hallucinatory visions.—
Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer,
Artforum,
1 Oct. 2024
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In 1986, Lynch released his erotic mystery Blue Velvet, which further cemented his unique point-of-view with dark, surreal story-building.—
McKinley Franklin,
TVLine,
16 Jan. 2025
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According to Pinterest, the basic premise of Butter Yellow is imaginative living that includes anything from a surreal modern yellow bubble vase to a doll-like swipe of yellow eye shadow.—
Lauren Thomann,
Better Homes & Gardens,
16 Jan. 2025
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The developers have also added new skills related to the dodge roll, such as the ability to leave behind an illusory copy of your character to act as a decoy, which make the new mechanic feel essential to the modernized gameplay the sequel implements.—
Diego Argüello,
Rolling Stone,
6 Dec. 2024
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Instead of enjoying my time with them and living in the moment, I was preoccupied with trying to curate an illusory holiday vibe.—
Melissa Jean-Baptiste,
refinery29.com,
21 Nov. 2024
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The feature, from experimental filmmaker Matthew Rankin, is an absurdist comedy set in an imaginary Canada where French and Farsi are the country’s two official languages.—
Scott Roxborough,
The Hollywood Reporter,
10 Jan. 2025
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Advertisement Since Southern California was located somewhere near 6:30 on this imaginary clock face, the result was winds traveling from east to west — the opposite of their normal direction.—
Ned Kleiner,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Jan. 2025
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The duo first shared the screen in 1999's Any Given Sunday, which follows a fictional professional football team.—
Nicholas Rice,
People.com,
18 Jan. 2025
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In his office, Berg used an ice axe to pitch Smith on a collaboration, which would eventually follow a fictional frontiersman and mother-son duo navigating the Westward expansion.—
Abbey White,
The Hollywood Reporter,
18 Jan. 2025
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However, that didn’t stop the fictitious school district from announcing closings as the North Texas deals with freezing rain and snow.—
Harrison Mantas,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
10 Jan. 2025
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Much like the fictitious film, Moss’s relationship with his youngest child’s mother has been tumultuous.—
Amber Corrine,
VIBE.com,
6 Jan. 2025
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If extensive violations of a federal law made that law go away, the rules would be chimerical.—
Jay Adkisson,
Forbes,
21 Nov. 2024
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The contrast is powerful, drawing attention to the chimerical nature of her quest.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
8 Nov. 2024
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This isn’t callousness or delusive optimism but, rather, a rebellion against the suffocating expectation that the elderly have foreclosed the possibility of joy.—
Hillary Kelly,
The New Yorker,
21 Feb. 2024
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To separate art from its historical framework is futile, and to reject it in an effort to censor past violence is a delusive act of virtue signaling.—
WSJ,
WSJ,
5 July 2022
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